Window-washing seat



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CHRISTINA L. WATI, OF BOSTOX, MASSACHUSETTS. i

WINDOW-WASHING SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,506, dated December 18, 1883.

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To @ZZ whom, it may con/cern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTINA L. WW1-rrr, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Iniprovenients in Seats for Use in 'Washing Windows, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a seat adapted to be secured to a Window-easing and rest on the Window-sill outside of the window and securely support a person engaged in Washing the outside of the Window.

The invention consists in the improved devices which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents an elevation of a Window-casing viewed from the inside of the room, showing my improvement in place. Fig. 2 represents asection on line fa w, Fig. l, looking downwardly on the seat and its supporting devices. Fig. 3 represents a section on line y y, Figs. l and 2. Figs. fi and 5 represent top views of modifications. Fig. 6 is a detail sectional view on line e z, Fig. 5.

The same letters of reference indicate the saine parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, A represents a Window ledge or sill at the outside ofthe window, and B represents the Window-casing.

C represents a seat adapted to support a person in a sitting posture. The seat is provided on its under side with lugs or rests D, adapted to bear on the window-sill, las shown in Fig. 3. The seat is provided with devices for engaging it with the Window-casing, said devices consisting, essentially, kof lugs E E, suitably connected with the seat, andV adapted to bear against the inner surfaces of the vertical sides of the Window-casing. I have shown tivo different inodes of applying said lugs E E, and will iirst describe the inode shown in Figs. l, 2, and 3. In said figures the lugs E E are formed on the ends of a U -shaped frame, H, of iron or other suitable metal.

J represents a curved back piece or support, which is pivoted at K K to the frame H, and is located above the rear portion of said frame, so as to support the back of the occupant of the chair. The ends of the back-piece J are bent downwardly to forni lugs J J', adapted to bear against the shoulder formed above the Window1 ledge or sill A by the outer surface of the base or lower cross-bar of the casing. The lugs J J are connected to the edges of the seat by screw-rods F F, rigidly aiicixed to said lugs and extending into threaded sockets in the seat. One ot' said rods is provided with right and the other with left hand threads, so that when the scat is rotated on said rods (which are in line with each other, and are thus adapted to serve as pivots.) the rods F F Will either be drawn inwardly or forced outwardly lengthwise, so as to decrease or increase the width of the U-sliaped frame, as the ease may be, and thus adapt the frame to Window-casings of different Widths, the sides ofthe frame inside of the lugs E E bearing against the inner sides of the Window-casing, as shown in Fig. 2, and thus preventing the frame `II and the seat from moving sidevvise in either direction. The rear portion of the franielis connected to the rear portion of the seat by a chain, I, which prevents the rear part of the seat from tipping downwardly. Said chain is detachable 'from the seat, so that the latter can be rotated, as above described, to adjust the -Width of the fra-nie H. It will be seen that the lugs J J and E E bear, respectively, against the outer and inner surfaces of the casing, so that the seat and its supporting devices cannot slip or inove outwardly or inwardly, and is therefore securely held in all directions, it being prevented from moving laterally by the bearing of the sides of the frame H against the inner sides of the easing, as above described. The fraineI-I is provided with a series of holes, N, as shown in Fig. 3, either of said holes being adapted to receive the pivot that connects the back-piece J to the frame H, so that said back-piece can ,be ad,- justed to vary the distance between its lugs J J and the lugs E E of the frame H, and thus adapt the device to casings of different thickness. The lugs E E are provided with rubber or other yielding coverings, R R, to prevent injury `to the Wood-Work by said lugs.

In the modifications shown in Figs. 4 and 5 the U-shaped frame His not employed, and the lugs E E are the ends of a stout bar attached rigidly to the front edge of the seat. In Fig. et I have shown movable stops S S attached to the seat by screws or pins TT, each passing through one of aseriesof holes in said IOO stops and connecting the same to the seat. Said holes and pins or screws enable the stops S to be adjusted to casings of different Widths, the outer ends f the stops bearing against the inner sides of the casing and preventing lateral movement of the seat and its lugs. In the form shown in Fig. 4L the seat is provided With a low back-piece, U, rigidly attached thereto. In Fig. 5 I have shown a detachable back-frame, V, independent of the seat, and

. provided with hooked ends V V, which grasp the front cross-bar. A back-piece J similar to that shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 is secured to said frame V, preferably by set-screws, so that it lcan be adjusted to walls or casings of different thicknesses.

It will be seen that my improved seat furnishes a secure support for a person on a Window-ledge, enabling the person sitting to use both hands in Washing the Window, and ob` viating all danger of falling backward. The seat also prevents the person washin g the wiudoW from taking cold by sitting directly on the Window-ledge.

I am aware that it is not new to provide a Window-washing seat Withlugs or arms adapted to bear simultaneously against the outer and inner surfaces of a window-casing, the lugs bearing against the outer surface of the casing being adjustable, as shown in Letters Patent of the United States No. 200,441; hence I do not claim such devices, broadly.

2 p seduce I claim- 1.' A seat or support adapted to rest on a Window ledge or sill at the outside of the Window, and provided With lugs E E, adapted to bear against the inner sides of the casing, and with adjustable devices for preventing the seat and its lugs from moving laterally, as set forth.

2. A seat or support adapted to rest on a Window ledge or sill at the outside of the Window7 combined with the U-shaped frame H, having lugs E E, the back-piece J, pivoted to the frame H and provided with lugs J J and the right and left screw-rods F F, connecting the seat to the lugs J J as set forth.

3. A seat or support adapted to rest on a Window ledge or sill at the outside of the Window, and provided with lugs E E, adapted to bear against the inner side of the casing, and With a back-piece, J, having adjustable lugs J J, adapted to bear against the outside of the casing, as set forth. y

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses, this 22d day of January, 1883.

CHRISTINA L. XVATT.

Vitnesscs:

L. A. VATT, A. L. NVIHTE. 

